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Rhetoric & Writing Studies San Diego State University

Faculty Profile : Suzanne Bordelon

 Office:
Adams Humanities 3106
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 Telephone:
(619) 594-7098
 Fax:
(619) 594-6530
 Email:
sbordelon2@cox.net

 

 

Ph.D Rhetoric and Composition, University of Oregon.

Dr. Bordelon coordinates the department’s Upper Division Writing Program and serves as the advisor for the Interdisciplinary Minor in Rhetoric and Writing Studies. Her teaching and research interests include literacy studies, composition pedagogy and theory, ethics, advanced composition, argument, and nineteenth-century women’s rhetorics. Her book, A Feminist Legacy: The Rhetoric and Pedagogy of Gertrude Buck, has been published in the Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms series, sponsored by Southern Illinois University Press. She has published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, College Composition and Communication, the Journal of Teaching Writing, Reading Research and Instruction, and Nineteenth-Century Prose. Dr. Bordelon’s articles have been anthologized in The Changing Tradition: Women in the History of Rhetoric (1999) and Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline (2004).


(Photograph by Adam William Gheshmi)